1 CHANGELOG for smartmontools
3 $Id: CHANGELOG,v 1.537 2006/04/12 16:11:44 ballen4705 Exp $
5 The most recent version of this file is:
6 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/CHANGELOG?sortby=date&view=markup
8 Maintainers / Developers Key:
22 [EM] Eduard Martinescu
23 [FM] Frédéric L. W. Meunier
31 NOTES FOR FUTURE RELEASES: see TODO file.
33 <DEVELOPERS: ADDITIONS TO THE CHANGE LOG GO JUST BELOW HERE, PLEASE>
35 smartmontools 5.36 Stable Release
37 [BA] Linux: smartd/smartctl issue syntax hints to user if 3ware
38 disk controller present with EITHER 3ware OR AMCC vendor
39 name, and user syntax incorrect.
41 [BA] Update copyright dates to 2006.
43 [DG] [SCSI] Loosen sanity check on Seagate/Hitachi factory information
44 log page so it is not skipped on recent Seagate SCSI disks.
46 [CF] Added command 'smartd -q showtests' to list test schedules.
48 [CF] Added command 'smartctl -P showall MODEL [FIRMWARE]' to list
49 database entries for specific drives and firmware.
51 [PW] Automatically set -v 9,minutes and -v 194,unknown for Maxtor
52 DiamondMax D540X-4G drives.
54 [DG] [SCSI] suppress various outputs when data fails sanity checks.
55 Correct 'last n error events' log page indexing.
57 [DG] [SCSI] changed smartctl exit status to reflect any problems in
58 the most recent 20 self test logs [Leandro Santi]
60 [DG] [SCSI] Fix process return value when scsiGetSmartData() fails
61 in smartctl [Leandro Santi]
63 [BA] Updated docs and error message to reflect Linux libata
64 support for smartmontools starting with the 2.6.15 kernel
65 series. Also init script support for the 'tinysofa' release.
67 [DG] [SCSI] Mask dpofua bit when changing mode pages. Fix failure
68 of 'smartctl -l error'.
70 [EM] Fixed a problem with FreeBSD and 3Ware 'twe' devices
72 [CF] Fixed a regexp in knowndrives table, added regexp syntax check
73 via 'smartctl -P showall'.
75 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Fixed memory leak in function calling
76 IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH. Thanks to Fred Schmidt for the problem
79 [CF] Cygwin: added cygrunsrv support and commands "install", "remove"
80 and "status" to smartd.initd.
82 [SS] Fix runtime problems on big-engian NetBSD platforms (patch provided
85 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Open smartd.conf in textmode to allow use of
88 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added option '--service' to allow smartd running
89 as windows service via cygrunsrv. Useful in conjunction with new
90 syslogd support added in Cygwin 1.5.15.
92 [CF] Windows: Added patch to avoid output of non-ascii timezone names.
94 [EM] Incorporate various patches to provide TWE support and support for
95 multiple 3Ware cards, Power Check Support, and FreeBSD 6.x support.
96 Thanks to Rudolf Cejka, Frank Behrens, and Jung-uk Kim.
98 [DG] Silence gcc 4.0.1 compile warning concerning the difference in
99 "signedness" in pointer assignments. Changes to SCSI code
102 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added missing drive from Quantum
103 Fireball Plus LM series, added QUANTUM BIGFOOT TS10.0A, added
104 ExcelStor J680 and J880, added Western Digital Caviar RE Serial ATA
105 series, added missing drives from Western Digital Caviar SE series,
106 added Seagate Momentus 4200.2 series, added missing drives from
107 Maxtor DiamondMax 10 series, added Fujitsu MHG and MHH series, and
108 added Hitachi Travelstar 5K100 series.
110 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added Fujitsu MHU2100AT, added
111 Fujitsu M1623TAU, added missing drives from Seagate Barracuda
112 7200.8 series, added Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series, and added
113 QUANTUM FIREBALL CR8.4A.
115 [PW] Additions to knowndrives table: added missing drive from Maxtor
116 MaxLine II series, added Maxtor DiamondMax 2880 Ultra ATA series,
117 added Maxtor DiamondMax 17 VL series, added Hitachi Deskstar 7K80
118 series, and added Hitachi Deskstar 7K400 series.
120 [CF] Windows: Fixed unsupported 'smartctl -X' on Win2000/XP by using
121 IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH instead.
123 smartmontools 5.34 Stable Release [NOTE: never officially released]
125 [CF] Cygwin & Windows smartd: Increased SCSI DEVICESCAN range
126 from ASPI adapter 0-3 to 0-9. Added diagnostic messages.
128 [CF] Windows smartd: Added ability to run .bat files via '-M exec'
131 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added FreeConsole() after fork() to avoid hang
132 of terminated shell console window.
134 [DG] [SCSI] Add code so 'smartctl -A' outputs the number of elements
135 in the grown defect list. When this number is increasing a
136 disk has problems. N.B. Similar logic should be added to smartd.
138 [CF] Windows smartd: Fixed event handling to allow start of another
139 smartd process when service is already running. Useful for testing
140 service configuration changes in debug mode.
142 [PW] Added following drives to knowndrives table: Western Digital Raptor
143 family, Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 family, Maxtor DiamondMax 2160
144 Ultra ATA and DiamondMax 10 families, Hitachi Travelstar E7K60
145 family, Seagate Medalist 17240, 13030, 10231, 8420, and 4310,
146 TOSHIBA MK4018GAP and MK6022GAX, ExcelStor Technology J360, and
147 Western Digital Caviar AC14300.
149 [PW] Added missing Fujitsu MHTxxxxAT and Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 drives
150 to knowndrives table.
152 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM10.2 to knowndrives table. Thanks to
153 Mike Fleetwood for submitting the patch.
155 [KS] Solaris/SPARC: fixed not to disable automatic offline test and
156 automatic save attributes incorrectly. Thanks to Roy Badami.
158 [BA] Linux: smartd init script now recognizes 'trustix' distro.
160 [DG] [SCSI] Medium and hardware errors were slipping through
161 unreported. Fix linux SCSI sense reporting via SG_IO ioctl.
163 [DG] [SCSI] Change lba of first failure in selftest output to
164 decimal (was hex) to conform with ATA output.
166 [GK] smartd: Detect most self-test failures even if the hour counter
169 [BA] smartctl: list 'marvell' as option if user give invalid
172 [CF] Windows: fixed SCSI timeout handling to allow long timeouts
175 [CF] Fixed buffer overflow issues in printone() and safe_vsnprintf()
176 which results in crash on -V option (at least on Windows).
178 [DG] [SCSI] Add explicit timeouts to INQUIRY and REQUEST SENSE (that
179 were missed in an earlier patch). Could have impacted freebsd.
181 [DG] When linux detects a sata_via_libata disk suggest that user try
182 '-d ata' (rather then '-d libata). Anticipate kernel change.
184 [YD] Added OS/2 and eComStation platform support.
186 [PW] Added Seagate U4 family, Fujitsu MHJ and MHK families, Seagate
187 Barracuda 5400.1, QUANTUM FIREBALLP KX27.3, QUANTUM FIREBALLP KA10.1,
188 and ExcelStor J340 to knowndrives table.
190 [DG] [SCSI] After report of Hitachi IC35L073UCDY10 disks locking up
191 on log page 0x7 (last n error events), check log page (and some
192 others) is supported (via log page 0x0) before probing.
194 [CF] Added safe_v?snprintf() for platforms using v?snprintf()
195 with non standard behaviour on overflow (Windows, old Linux)
197 [CF] smartd: Added message if check power mode spins up disk.
199 [CF] Windows: Added support for READ_LOG on WinNT4 using undocumented
200 pseudo SCSI command via IOCTL_SCSI_PASS_THROUGH.
202 [CF] smartd: Added ',q' option for '-n' directive to suppress 'skipping
203 checks' log message. This prevents a laptop disk from spinning up
204 due to this message. Thanks to Rob MacLachlan and Manfred Schwarb
205 for pointing out problem & solution.
207 [CF] Windows: Added function get_os_version_str() to show OS flavor in
210 [CF] Windows: Added function ata_identify_is_cached() to check for outdated
211 SMART enabled bit in identify data.
213 [CF] Windows: Added fix to prevent linkage of smartd specific win32 modules
216 [PW] Added Fujitsu MPG3153AH, Hitachi Endurastar J4K20/N4K20 (formerly
217 DK23FA-20J), Seagate Momentus family, and Maxtor Fireball 3 family
218 to knowndrives table.
220 [PW] Added missing Maxtor DiamondMax 16, Seagate Barracuda ATA IV, and
221 Western Digital Caviar WDxxxAA/WDxxxBA drives to knowndrives table.
223 [CF] Windows: Added ATA check power mode for smartd -n directive.
225 [CF] Windows: Fixed use of new service status flag which causes hang
226 of smartd service on WinNT4.
228 [CF] Windows: Fixed error checking of IOCTL_IDE_PASS_THROUGH (used
229 for READ_LOG on 2000/XP). Added some diagnostic messages on
230 -r ataioctl[,2]. Thanks to Manfred Schwarb for bug report and testing.
232 [BA] Fixed code bug that made it impossible to enable SMART on
233 disks with failing health status. This would happen if the
234 os_*.c author made STATUS and STATUS_CHECK work the same way.
235 I have corrected this at a higher level; we now handle the
236 case where STATUS and STATUS_CHECK are identical without
239 [LW] Make os_linux.c/marvell_command_interface() always return 0 on STATUS.
240 Needed for a disk having bad SMART status.
242 [CF] smartctl: Added drive family printing.
244 [CF] autogen.sh: Allow automake 1.9, added message if automake
247 [BA] smartctl: use locale-specific separators for printing disk
248 capacity. Also use AC_CHECK_HEADERS not AC_CHECK_HEADER in
251 [BA] clean-up of #include structure so that -V options to smartd
252 and smartctl work correctly. Please, don't #include header
253 files into other header files.
255 smartmontools 5.33 Experimental Release
257 [BA] smartctl: ATA disks, if SMART ATTRIBUTE THRESHOLDS page has ID
258 errors with some Attributes having NULL IDs, print Attribute
259 info anyway (but issuing a warning to the user).
261 [DG] [SCSI] Decode Last n error events log page; decode track following
262 and positioning errors [Hitachi]
264 [EM] FreeBSD: another tweak, __packed__ introduced in Version 5.0040
266 [EM] Cleaner tweak of fixes for FreeBSD 4.x.
268 [EM] Fix compilation errors under FreeBSD 4.x, as it is still using
271 [EM] Remove 3ware/FreeBSD specific files and just include pieces we need
273 [DG] Add logic in smartd to detect 3ware, Marvell controllers and SATA
274 disks behind an ATA-SCSI simulator (in Linux). If specific device
275 types are not given and they are picked in a general SCSI device
276 scan then warn and skip.
278 [GG] insert correct path to smartd into smartd's init script
280 [BA] Changed all default paths in documentation to reflect /usr/local as
281 default path prefix. This affects on-line man pages, primarily.
283 [DS] Added support for OpenBSD
285 [BA] Added another environment variable SMART_FULLMESSAGE set by
286 the smartd mailing feature, and modified examplescripts/Example1
289 [BA] Fixed potentially misleading messages of the form:
292 [DG] emit warning if SATA disk detected using libata in Linux; then exit
294 [PW] Added Seagate U10 family, Hitachi Travelstar 7K60, Fujitsu MHR2020AT,
295 and QUANTUM FIREBALLP AS20.5 to knowndrives table.
297 [DG] Detect 3ware and Marvell controllers from SCSI INQUIRY vendor string
298 and suggest usage of appropriate '-d' argument in smartctl.
300 [LW] Tested the RELEASE_5_33_WITH_MARVELL_SUPPORT branch on
301 actual Marvell 88SX5041 hardware, with success.
304 [BA] Fixed nasty DEVICESCAN bug
306 [BA] Checked in RELEASE_5_33_WITH_MARVELL_SUPPORT branch with
307 some Marvell support.
309 [BA] Additional modifications of Ed's controller scheme. Fixed
310 broken 3ware support under linux, problems with scanning
311 devices in smartd, and other small problems.
313 [CF] Added make targets to build formatted man pages (htmlman, txtman),
314 Windows distribution (dist-win32) and MSVC6 config.h (config-vc6).
316 [EM] Minor change to FreeBSD inclusion of 'twe' include files. Add
317 code to check if they exising in /usr/include/sys to use those
318 in preference to ones added here
320 [EM] Very preliminary support attempt for 3Ware controllers under
321 FreeBSD. Also, switched 'escalade_type/escalade_port' to
322 'controler_type/controller_port' and moved away from
323 'tryata/tryscsi' to using new 'controller*' variables to
324 determine which controller type (ATA/SCSI/3Ware) to use.
326 [GK] Added initscript support for Darwin.
328 [CF] Windows smartd: Added ability to run smartd as a windows service,
329 including new commands "smartd install ..." and "smartd remove"
330 to install and remove the service registry entry.
332 [BA] smartd: warn user if -s regexp regular expression contains
333 characters other than 0123456789.*()|+?[-]{}:=SLCO since such
334 characters are 'suspicous' and may indicate a poorly formed
335 regexp. Extended regular expression gurus: can this list be
338 [CF] Fixed bug in Windows smartd: Missing close of config file when
339 configuration is reloaded by smartd daemon.
341 [CF] Windows smartd: Added mail warning feature using the "Blat"
342 (http://blat.sourceforge.net/) mailer as a default.
344 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 5120 Ultra ATA 33 series and TOSHIBA
345 MK3017GAP to knowndrives table.
347 [CF] Added fixes to build smartmontools on old Linux systems
348 (libc < 6, Kernel 2.0.x).
350 [BA] Added ATA minor version identity strings for latest ATA specification
351 updates: ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 4a and ATA/ATAPI-6 published,
354 [PW] Added Hitachi Travelstar 5K80 family and Fujitsu MHTxxxxAH family to
357 [EM] Fix up compilation under FreeBSD < 5.x
359 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALL EX3.2A and missing Western Digital Caviar SE
360 drives to knowndrives table.
362 [BA] Modified Hitachi Travelstar 80GN family regexp in drive database.
363 Thanks to [GK/CF] for problem & solution.
365 [GK] Added os_darwin.[ch]
367 [PW] Added the following drives to the knowndrives table: IBM Travelstar
368 48GH, 30GN, and 15GN family; IBM Deskstar 37GP and 34GXP family;
369 Western Digital WDC WD272AA; Maxtor DiamondMax D540X-4D family;
370 TOSHIBA MK2016GAP, MK2018GAP, MK2018GAS, MK2023GAS; and
371 QUANTUM FIREBALL ST3.2A
373 [BA] smartd/smarctl now print build HOST/OS information as part
374 of startup slogan. This should make it slightly easier to
375 read bug reports from users.
377 [RZ] Fixed the DEVICESCAN to do what it was supposed to do - give
378 error message unless scanning is in progress.
380 [BA] Update documentation to describe 3ware character devices. Better
381 error detection for missing/malfunctioning devices behind 3ware
382 controllers. Now pack 3ware ioctl structures explicitly.
384 [BA] For ATA devices that support LBA mode, print capacity as part
387 [RZ] Made DEVICESCAN quiet about non-existing devices unless debug
390 [DG] treat "unit attention" SCSI warning as try again in some contexts
391 (test unit ready and mode sense)
393 [BA] on drives that store max/min rather than min/max, get order
394 correct in printing temp.
396 [BA] fixed typo in 'smartctl -h' output. Thanks to Gabor Z. Papp.
398 [BA] linux: clean-up to 3ware/AMCC support; dynamically create
399 or fix /dev/tw[ae][0-15] device node entries if they don't
400 exist or are incorrect. One can now use the character devices
401 /dev/twe[0-15] OR /dev/sd? for 3ware 6000/7000/8000 series
402 cards. One must use /dev/twa[0-15] for 3ware 9000 series cards.
403 Note that selective self-tests now work via /dev/tw[ae] devices.
404 Next step: documentation.
406 [BA] linux: experimental "support" for 3ware/AMCC 9000 series
407 controllers that use the 3w-9xxx driver. This will be in a
408 state of flux for a few days. Note that this requires the
409 character interface /dev/twa[0-15].
411 [DG] linux: extend general SCSI OS interface to use the SG_IO ioctl. If
412 not available, use the older SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND ioctl.
414 [KS] Solaris/x86: fixed system identification problem in configure
415 script. Thanks to Stuart Swales.
419 [BA] Update link to revised/updated IBM Deskstar Firmware
421 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Added missing ASPI manager initialization
422 with GetASPI32SupportInfo(). Thanks to Nikolai SAOUKH for pointing
423 this out and providing a patch.
425 [BA] modified smartd init script to work on whitebox (thanks to
428 [BA] removed (reverted) additional Attribute definitions from
429 http://smart.friko.pl/attributes.php. All (or most?) of these
430 appear to be return code values for the WD Digital Life Guard Utility.
432 [PW] Added Seagate Medalist 17242, 13032, 10232, 8422, and 4312 to
433 knowndrives table. Added missing Seagate U Series 5 drives.
435 [PW] Added the following QUANTUM models to knowndrives table:
436 FIREBALL EX6.4A, FIREBALLP AS10.2, FIREBALLP AS40.0, FIREBALL CR4.3A,
437 FIREBALLP LM15, FIREBALLP LM30, and FIREBALLlct20 30
439 [PW] Added missing Western Digital Protege drives to knowndrives table.
441 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 40 ATA 66 series and DiamondMax 40 VL Ultra
442 ATA 100 series to knowndrives table.
444 [PW] Added the following Hitachi/IBM drives to knowndrives table:
445 HITACHI_DK14FA-20B, Travelstar 40GNX series, Travelstar 4LP series,
446 and Travelstar DK23XXB series. Added the missing Travelstar 80GN
449 [PW] Added Fujitsu MPB series and MPG series to knowndrives table. Added
450 the missing Fujitsu MHSxxxxAT drives.
452 [KS] Solaris: added workaround for dynamic change of time-zone.
454 [KS] Solaris: fixed problem that autogen.sh cannot detect absence of
457 [BA] smartd: added time-zone bug information to man page.
458 Reverted CF code for _WIN32 case.
460 [CF] Cygwin & Windows: Added better error messages on IDE/ATA device
463 [BA] added additional Attribute definitions from
464 http://smart.friko.pl/attributes.php
466 [BA] smartd: reworked TimeZone bug workaround so it is only invoked
467 for glibc. Note: this might not be right -- a similar bug may
468 exist in other platform's libcs.
470 [DG] SCSI smartmontools documentation updated [2004/5/6]. See:
471 http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/smartmontools_scsi.html
473 [CF] Windows: Fixed reset of TZ=GMT in glibc timezone bug workaround.
477 [DG] move SCSI device temperature and start-stop log page output
478 (smartctl) into --attributes section (was in --info section).
480 [GG] change default installation location to /usr/local
482 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Fixed crash on access of SCSI devices after fork().
484 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4018GAS and the following Maxtor drive families
485 to knowndrives table: DiamondMax D540X-4G, Fireball 541DX,
486 DiamondMax 3400 Ultra ATA, DiamondMax Plus 6800 Ultra ATA 66.
488 [PW] Added missing Maxtor DiamondMax 16, DiamondMax D540X-4K, and
489 DiamondMax Plus 45 Ulta ATA 100 drives to knowndrives table.
491 [PW] Added ExcelStor J240, Hitachi Travelstar 80GN family, Fujitsu
492 MHTxxxxAT family, and IBM Deskstar 25GP and 22GXP families to
495 [CF] Cygwin smartd: Added workaround for missing SIGQUIT via keyboard:
496 To exit smartd in debug mode, type CONTROL-C twice.
498 [BA] smartctl: printing of the selective self-test log is now
499 controlled by a new option: -l selective
501 [BA] Added entries for Samsung firmware versions -25 to -39 based
502 on latest info about firmware bug fixes.
504 [PW] Added Seagate U Series X family, Seagate U8 family, and Seagate
505 Medalist 8641 family to knowndrives table.
507 [CF] smartd: Added exit values 5/6 for missing/unreadable config file.
509 [BA] smartd: now monitor the Current Pending Sector count (Attribute 197)
510 and the Offline Pending Sector Count (Attribute 198). Log a
511 warning (and send an email, if so configured) if the raw count
512 is nonzero. These are controlled by new Directives: -C and -U.
513 Currently they are enabled by default.
515 [CF] Added option -c FILE, --configfile=FILE to smartd to specify
516 an alternate configuration FILE or '-' for standard input.
518 [KS] configure.in now searches for -lnsl and -lsocket for Solaris.
520 [CF] Win32/native smartd: Added thread to combine several syslog output
521 lines into one single event log entry.
523 [CF] Win32 smartd: Added DEVICESCAN for SCSI/ASPI devices.
525 [GG] Use gethostbyname() the get the DNS domain since getdomainname()
526 returns the NIS domain when sending mails from smartd.
528 [GG] smartd.init.in: pass smartd_opts to smartd on startup, read distribution
529 specific configuration files if found
531 [SS] smartctl: added NetBSD support for Selective Self-tests.
533 [BA] smartd.conf example configuration file now has all examples
534 commented out except for 'DEVICESCAN'.
536 [CF] Win32/native smartd: Added ability to display warning "emails"
537 as message box by "-m msgbox" directive. With "-m sysmsgbox",
538 a system modal (always on top) message box is shown.
540 [BA] smartctl: printing of self-test log for disks that support
541 Selective self-testing now shows the status of the (optional)
542 read-scan after the selective self test. Also, changed format
543 in printing self-test log to print failing LBA in base 10 not
544 base 16 (more compatible with kernel error messages). Also,
545 in printing SMART error log, print timestamps in format
546 days+hours+minutes+seconds.
548 [CF] Win32 smartd: Added ability to log to stdout/stderr
549 (-l local1/2). Toggling debug console still works
550 if stdout is redirected.
552 [BA] smartctl: selective self-test log, print current status
553 in a more detailed way. Allow writing of selective self-test
554 log provided that no other self-test is underway.
556 [BA] Linux: eliminated dependency on kernel tree hdreg.h.
558 [BA] smartctl: -l selftest option now prints Selective self-test
559 log in addition to the normal self-test log.
560 Added additional options (-t pending, -t afterselect) to
561 control remaining Selective Self-test capabilities. Tested
562 with several Maxtor disks. Modified error message printing
563 so that munged option messages print at the end not the
566 [CF] Added daemon support to Win32 native version of smartd.
567 The daemon can be controlled by commands similar to initd
568 scripts: "smartd status|stop|reload|restart|sigusr1|sigusr2".
570 [CF] Added minor support for option "-l local[0-7]" to Win32 native
571 (not Cygwin) version of smartd. If specified, the log output
572 is written to file "./smartd[1-7]?.log" instead of event log.
574 [BA] Added Selective Self-test to smartctl (-t selective,M-N).
575 Currently only supported under Linux; Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD
576 and Windows developers must add WRITE LOG functionality to
579 [BA] Added workaround for an annoying glibc bug: if you change
580 timezones, (eg, flying with a laptop from USA to Europe)
581 localtime() does not notice this in a running
582 executable, so time that appears in the system log (syslog!)
583 will be incorrect. See
584 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=48184
585 for additional examples of this bug.
587 [DG] Set explicit timeouts for SCSI commands (most default to 6 seconds).
588 Previously a 0 second timeout was meant to be interpreted as a
589 default timeout but the FreeBSD port had a problem in this area.
591 [CF] Fixed un-thread-safe exit signal handler for Win32
593 [BA] Fixed un-thread-safe exit signal handler pointed out
596 [BA] Changed configure script to eliminate warnings under
597 Solaris from sys/int_type.h conflicts with int64.h
598 Added header files for umask to smartd.c.
600 [BA] Man page format change from Werner LEMBERG. " " changed to \&
602 [CF] Added os_win32/syslogevt.* event message file tool for Win32
603 smartd (native+cygwin). May also be useful for other cygwin
604 programs writing to syslog().
606 [CF] Added Win32 version of smartd
608 [CF] Merged RELEASE_5_26_WIN32_BRANCH
610 [BA] Made some changes to man page markup suggested by
611 Richard Verhoeven to work around bugs in man2html.
612 Tested not to break anything under Linux and Solaris.
614 [CF] Moved PrintOut() from utility.c to smart{ctl,d}.c to avoid
615 syslog() output of smartctl.
617 [BA] Grew worried that some time-zone names could be very long (eg,
618 Mitteleuropaische Zeit) and put date string lengths into a
619 single macro in utility.c
621 [EM] Updated os_freebsd.c to handle older versions of FreeBSD in a
622 more appropriate/obvious fashion.
624 [EM] Modified autogen.sh as FreeBSD installs automake 1.7 as
625 'automake17' and NOT 'automake-1.7'
629 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 30, QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 40, and
630 Maxtor 6Y060P0 (DiamondMax Plus 9 60GB) to knowndrives table.
632 [PW] Added Maxtor MaXLine II family to knowndrives table (thanks to
633 Brett Russ for submitting the patch).
635 [BA] Added remaining read/write commands to detailed list of
636 error log commands that have text descriptions of problem
637 printed. For commands that support it, print number of failed
638 sectors at problem LBA.
640 [BA] Made SuSE section of smartd init script more SuSE 9 compatible.
641 Thanks to Hans-Peter Jansen.
643 [CF] Windows smartd: Added IDE/ATA device scan
644 Added windows device names to smartctl.8.in, smartd.8.in
646 [BA] smartctl/smartd: user-provided '-F samsung' and '-F samsung2'
647 command line options/Directives did NOT over-ride preset values
648 unless user specified '-P ignore'. Now they will always over-ride
649 preset values from the database.
651 [BA] Added error decoding for a few more READ and WRITE commands.
653 [PW] Added Maxtor MaXLine Plus II, Western Digital Caviar SE (Serial ATA)
654 series, Hitachi Deskstar 7K250 series, and Ultra ATA 66 models of
655 the Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 series to knowndrives table.
657 [BA] Added Maxtor Diamondmax 250 GB drives to database. Note that
658 these model numbers are not listed in Maxtor documentation, but
661 [BA] Removed the 'contact developers' phrase from the Samsung disk
664 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK2017GAP, IBM Deskstar 14GXP and 16GP series,
665 Fujitsu MPC series, Seagate Barracuda ATA III family, and missing
666 Seagate Barracuda U Series drives to knowndrives table
668 [BA] smartd: wrong loglevel for message: Configuration file
669 /etc/smartd.conf parsed. Changed to LOG_INFO from LOG_CRIT.
670 Thanks to Emmanuel CHANTREAU for the report.
672 [CF] Checked in development version of windows code base.
674 smartmontools 5.29 (note: there was NO 5.28 release)
676 [BA] smartd: configure script did not set correct directory to search for
677 smartd.conf based on --prefix argument to ./configure. Thanks to
678 GG for identifying the problem and fix.
680 [BA] make clean now removes man pages (generated from *.in) files as well
683 [EM] Correct copying of sense data in FreeBSD SCSI implementation. Thanks
684 to Sergey Svishchev for noticing the bug.
686 [BA] On solaris, wrong warning message if no ATA support. Warning message
687 concerns 3ware controller, not ATA.
689 [SS] Added SCSI support for NetBSD.
691 [BA] on big-endian linux machines, fixed interpretation of HDIO_GET_IDENTITY
692 to correctly identify ATAPI bit (was byte swapped). This should
693 eliminate some SYSLOG noise if user queries a packet device (eg, CD
696 [PW] Removed warning for IBM Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP series drives with
697 A5AA/A6AA firmware. Thanks to Gerald Schnabel.
699 [PW] Added Toshiba TOS MK3019GAXB SUN30G to knowndrives table
701 [PW] Added Western Digital Caviar AC12500, AC24300, AC25100, AC36400,
702 and AC38400 to knowndrives table
704 [BA] When printing ATA error log, print the LBA at which READ
705 or WRITE commands failed.
707 [BA] Changed syntax of error message in smartctl
709 [BA] Added versioning info (-V options to smartd/smartctl) for
714 [KS] Added ATA/IDE support for Solaris/SPARC (ATA/IDE not yet for
717 [BA] 3ware controllers: documented that one can monitor any of the
718 physical disks from any of the 3ware /dev/sd? logical devices.
719 Better warnings if querying a disk that does not exist.
721 [PW] Added Hitachi Travelstar DK23DA series, Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40
722 series, Western Digital Caviar WDxxxAA, WDxxxBA, and WDxxxAB series
725 [BA] missing 'pragma pack' on ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE structure may have
726 caused odd or incorrect results on 64-bit machines.
728 [BA] smartctl/smartd allow inspection of self-test and error logs even
729 if disk firmware claims that these don't exist. This is needed
730 for some Maxtor disks whose firmware does not indicate log support
731 even though the disk DOES support it.
733 [BA] Improved porting instructions and documentation in os_generic.c
735 [PW] Add Western Digital Caviar WD136AA and SAMSUNG SP40A2H (RR100-07
736 firmware) to knowndrives table.
738 [EM] FreeBSD: remove extra definition of FreeNonZero
740 [BA] smartctl: the -q silent option was printing output for some
741 error conditions. Fixed. Will rename relevant variables to help
742 avoid these errors in the future.
744 [SS] NetBSD port added.
746 [BA] more sensible error messages for devfs and devfs-like systems.
747 Instead of saying that the DIRECTORY does not exist, say that
748 the DEVICE does not exist.
750 [BA] smartd: added -n Directive, to prevent disk spin-up depending
751 upon the power mode (SLEEP, STANDBY, or IDLE).
753 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 20 VL series, Fujitsu MPF series,
754 Maxtor DiamondMax 36 series, Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 series, and
755 Maxtor DiamondMax 536DX series to knowndrives table.
757 [BA] many warning messages now give the file name AND VERSION
759 [BA] smartd: when the user provides multiple address recipients
760 to the '-m' Directive in a comma-delineated list, the commas
761 are stripped out before passing the list of addresses to the
762 mailer program. (Thanks to Calin A. Culianu for pointing this out
763 and providing a patch.)
765 [BA] smartd: when the '-M exec path' Directive is used, any stdout OR
766 stderr output from the executable "path" is assumed to indicate a
767 problem, and is echoed to SYSLOG.
769 [BA] Added all missing IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 180GXP models to knowndrives
772 [PW] Added some missing IBM/Hitachi Deskstar 120GXP models to knowndrives
775 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 14GS to knowndrives table.
777 [PW] Modified knowndrives table to match entire Hitachi Travelstar
778 DK23BA and DK23EA series of drives (thanks to Norikatsu Shigemura
779 for submitting the patch).
781 [PW] Added some missing Fujitsu MPE series drives to knowndrives table.
783 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4019GAX, TOSHIBA MK6409MAV, and QUANTUM
784 FIREBALLlct15 20 to knowndrives table.
786 [EM] Fixup example command output for FreeBSD
788 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax 80 family to knowndrives table.
790 [EM] Catch up FreeBSD code to switch PROJECTHOME to PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE
793 [BA] smartd: now watches stdout/stderr when trying to run mail, mailx
794 or mail warning script, and reports any output to SYSLOG. This
795 gives a clearer error message if something is wrong.
797 [BA] smartd: Solaris init script modified to accomodate grep that
798 lacks '-q' quiet option. Also check for running process to kill
801 [PW] Added some missing Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus drives
802 to knowndrives table.
804 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 60 family and Seagate U Series 5 20413
805 to knowndrives table.
807 [BA] smartd: under Solaris, made default mailer be 'mailx' not
808 'mail', since Solaris 'mail' does not accept a '-s' argument.
809 A workaround for Solaris users of earlier versions is to
810 have '-M exec /bin/mailx' in their smartd.conf config file.
812 [DG] some SCSI controllers don't like odd length transfers so make
813 sure LOG SENSE transfers are rounded up to an even number when
814 and odd length is reported (i.e. there is a double fetch, the
815 first to find the length, the second gets the data)
817 [BA] smartd man pages: under Solaris, correct section numbers in the
820 [KS/BA] smartd man page: describe how to set Solaris syslog.conf
821 file to catch all messages. Give correct Solaris SYSLOG default
822 path /var/adm/messages in man pages.
824 [BA] smartd: incorporated Debian startup script submitted by user.
826 [BA] smartctl: modified printing of self-test log entry number. Seagate
827 firmware can leave 'holes' in the self-test log while a test is
828 actually running. We now print entry numbers consistently in this
829 case, not assuming that entries are contiguous.
831 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALL CX10.2A and Western Digital Caviar AC23200L
832 to knowndrives table.
834 [PW] Added QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20 to knowndrives table.
836 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus D740X family to knowndrives table.
838 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 32GH, 30GT, and 20GN family to knowndrives
841 [BA] Slackware init script modified to search for /etc/slackware-version
842 rather than /etc/slackware-release.
844 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA II family and TOSHIBA MK4019GAXB to
847 [GG] explain howto use autoreconf in autogen.sh
849 [KS] Makefile.am/configure.in: changed manual page sections for
852 [BA] smartd: reduced number of scheduled self-test messages if
853 test already run in current hour.
855 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 8 family to knowndrives table.
857 [BA] linux: check for linux/hdreg.h. If it's there, use it. If
858 not, provide the necessary definitions ourselves.
860 [PW] Removed warning for IBM Deskstar 40GV & 75GXP series drives
861 with TXAOA5AA firmware
863 [PW] Added IBM Travelstar 25GS, 18GT, and 12GN family to knowndrives
866 [PW] Added IBM/Hitachi Travelstar 60GH & 40GN family to knowndrives
869 [BA] smartd: made '-s' Directive more efficient. Now store
870 compiled regex, and re-use. If device lacks certain self-test
871 capabilities, track it and don't try again.
873 [BA] smartd: made memory allocation for device lists completely
874 dynamic (eliminating compile-time maximum length constants).
876 [PW] Removed warning for SAMSUNG SP0802N with TK100-23 firmware
878 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA IV family to knowndrives table.
880 [BA] smartd: reduce per-device memory footprint by making
881 mail-warning info dynamically allocated. Also remove
882 potential memory leak if use has -m Directive twice and
883 keeps reloading the config file (highly unlikely this would
886 [DG] smartd: added SCSI scheduled self-tests (Background
889 [BA] smartd: can now run scheduled offline immediate and
890 self-tests. See man page and -s Directive for details.
892 [GG] don't include manpages in make-dist-tarball.
894 [BA] smartctl: on-line examples given with -h are now correct
895 for solaris and linux, but wrong for freebsd. Ed?
897 [BA] smartd: man page now explains device scanning for solaris as
898 well as linux and freebsd.
900 [BA] smartd/smartctl: man pages now report correct CVS tag release
901 date, and executables '-V' options reports more build info.
905 [BA] Improved user messages that appear from 'make install'
907 [PW] Removed warning for SAMSUNG SP1213N with firmware TL100-23
909 [BA] incorporated SuSE init script from user.
911 [DG] if SCSI device is read only, then open it read only.
913 [BA] when compiled on non-supported system (NOT linux, freebsd or solaris) then
914 the run-time error messages now clearly say 'your system is not supported'
915 and give clear directions.
917 [BA] ./configure script now works correctly on SuSE linux boxes
919 [BA] minor improvements to man pages
921 [BA] simplified detection of packet (ATAPI, CD) devices.
923 [BA] init script (redhat, mandrake, yellowdog) now uses correct
924 strings for translation and is slightly more standard.
926 [DG] smartctl: output scsi Seagate vendor pages for disks (not tapes)
930 Note: there was no '5.24' release. From this point on, even numbered
931 releases will be 'stable' ones and odd numbered releases will be
932 unstable/testing/development ones.
934 [DG] smartd/smartctl: changed scsiClearControlGLTSD() to
935 scsiSetControlGLTSD() with an 'enabled' argument so '-S on'
936 and '-S off' work for SCSI devices (if changing GLTSD supported).
938 [BA] smartd/smartctl: wired in scsiClearControlGLTSD(). Could still
939 use a corresponding Set function. Left stubs for this purpose.
941 [DG] scsicmds: added scsiClearControlGLTSD() [still to be wired in]
943 [BA] smartctl: make SCSI -T options behave the same way as the
946 [DG] smartctl: output scsi transport protocol if available
948 [DG] scsi: stop device scan in smartd and smartctl if badly formed
949 mode response [heuristic to filter out USB devices before we
950 (potentially) lock them up].
952 [BA] smartd: deviceclose()->CloseDevice(). Got rid of SCSIDEVELOPMENT
953 macro-enabled code. Added -W to list of gcc specific options to
954 always enable. Made code clean for -W warnings.
956 [PW] Added Maxtor DiamondMax VL 30 family to knowndrives table.
958 [DG] scsi: add warning (when '-l error' active) if Control mode page
959 GLTSD bit is set (global disable of saving log counters)
961 [DG] scsi: remember mode sense cmd length. Output trip temperature
962 from IE lpage (IBM extension) when unavailable from temp lpage.
964 [BA] smartd: for both SCSI and ATA now warns user if either
965 the number of self-test errors OR timestamp of most
966 recent self-test error have increased.
968 [DG] smartctl: output Seagate scsi Cache and Factory log pages (if
969 available) when vendor attributes chosen
971 [DG] smartd: add scsiCountFailedSelfTests() function.
973 [DG] Do more sanity checking of scsi log page responses.
975 [BA] smartd: now warns user if number of self-test errors has
976 increased for SCSI devices.
978 [BA] smartd: warn user if number of ATA self-test errors increases
979 (as before) OR if hour time stamp of most recent self-test
982 [DG] More checks for well formed mode page responses. This has the side
983 effect of stopping scans on bad SCSI implementations (e.g. some
984 USB disks) prior to sending commands (typically log sense) that
987 [PW] Added Western Digital Caviar family and Caviar SE family to
990 [BA] smartd: added -l daemon (which is the default value if -l
993 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda ATA V family to knowndrives table.
995 [BA] smartd: added additional command line argument -l FACILITY
996 or --logfacility FACILITY. This can be used to redirect
997 messages from smartd to a different file than the one used
998 by other system daemons.
1000 [PW] Added Seagate Barracuda 7200.7, Western Digital Protege WD400EB,
1001 and Western Digital Caviar AC38400 to knowndrives table.
1003 [BA] smartd: scanning should now also work correctly for
1004 devfs WITHOUT traditional links /dev/hd[a-t] or /dev/sd[a-z].
1006 [PW] Added Maxtor 4W040H3, Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus,
1007 IBM Deskstar 120GXP (40GB), Seagate U Series 20410,
1008 Fujitsu MHM2100AT, MHL2300AT, MHM2150AT, and IBM-DARA-212000
1009 to knowndrives table.
1011 [PW] Added remaining Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 models to knowndrives
1014 [EM] smartd: If no matches found, then return 0, rather than an error
1015 indication, as it just means no devices of the given type exist.
1016 Adjust FreeBSD scan code to mirror Linux version.
1018 [BA] smartd: made device scan code simpler and more robust. If
1019 too many devices detected, warn user but scan as many
1020 as possible. If error in scanning, warn user but don't
1023 [EM] smartd: To keep as consistent as possible, migrate FreeBSD
1024 devicescan code to also use glob(3). Also verified clean
1025 compile on a 4.7 FreeBSD system.
1027 [BA] smartd: Modified device scan code to use glob(3). Previously
1028 it appeared to have trouble when scanning devices on an XFS
1029 file system, and used non-public interface to directory
1030 entries. Problems were also reported when /dev/ was on an
1031 ext2/3 file system, but there was a JFS partition on the same
1034 [BA] Clearer error messages when device scanning finds no suitable
1037 [EM] FreeBSD: Fixup code to allow for proper compilation under
1042 [BA] smartd: didn't close file descriptors of ATA packet devices
1043 that are scanned. Fixed.
1045 [BA] Added reload/report targets to the smartmontools init script.
1046 reload: reloads config file
1047 report: send SIGUSR1 to check devices now
1051 [EM] Fix compile issues for FreeBSD < 5-CURRENT.
1053 [PW] Added Fujitsu MHM2200AT to knowndrives table.
1055 [BA] To help catch bugs, clear ATA error structures before all
1056 ioctl calls. Disable code that attempted to time-out on SCSI
1057 devices when they hung (doesn't work).
1059 [BA] Documented STATUS/ERROR flags added by [PW] below.
1061 [BA] Improved algorithm to recognize ATA packet devices. Should
1062 no longer generate SYSLOG kernel noise when user tries either
1063 smartd or smartctl on packet device (CD-ROM or DVD). Clearer
1064 warning messages from smartd when scanning ATA packet device.
1066 [PW] Added TOSHIBA MK4025GAS to knowndrives table.
1068 [PW] Added a textual interpretation of the status and error registers
1069 in the SMART error log (ATA). The interpretation is
1070 command-dependent and currently only eight commands are supported
1071 (those which produced errors in the error logs that I happen to
1074 [BA] added memory allocation tracking to solaris code.
1075 Fixed solaris signal handling (reset handler to default
1076 after first call to handler) by using sigset. Added
1077 HAVE_SIGSET to configure.in
1079 [CD] solaris port: added SCSI functionality to solaris
1082 [BA] smartd: attempt to address bug report about smartd
1083 hanging on USB devices when scanning:
1084 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107615
1085 Set a timeout of SCSITIMEOUT (nominally 7 seconds) before
1088 [EM] smartd: DEVICESCAN will follow links in a devfs filesystem and
1089 make sure the end point is a disc. Update documentation, added
1090 note about FreeBSD scanning
1092 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN also looks for block devices in
1093 /dev. Updated documentation. Now scans for up to
1094 20 ATA devices /dev/hda-t rather than previous 12
1097 [EM] smartd: mirror the FreeBSD DEVICESCAN logic for Linux,
1098 so that smartd now scans only devices found in /dev/. Also,
1099 make utility memory functions take a line number and file so
1100 that we report errors with the correct location.
1102 [GG] add a note about Debian bug #208964 to WARNINGS.
1104 [BA] smartctl: -T verypermissive option broken. Use
1105 -T verpermissive until the next release, please.
1107 [BA] Syntax mods so that code also compiles on Solaris using
1108 Sun Workshop compiler. Need -xmemalign 1i -xCC flags
1113 [DK] Changed configure.in so -Wall is only included if gcc
1114 is used (this is a gcc specific flag) and -fsignedchar
1115 is not used at all (this is a gcc specific compiler
1118 [BA] Modifications so that code now compiles under solaris. Now
1119 all that's needed (:-) is to fill in os_solaris.[hc]. Added
1120 os_generic.[hc] as guide to future ports. Fixed -D option
1121 of smartd (no file name). Modified -h opt of smartd/smartctl
1122 to work properly with solaris getopt().
1124 [EM] Update MAN pages with notes that 3ware drives are NOT supported
1125 under FreeBSD. Cleanup FreeBSD warning message handling.
1127 [EM] FreeBSD only: Fix first user found bug....I guess I was making
1128 the wrong assumption on how to convert ATA devnames to
1129 channel/unit numbers.
1131 [EM] Allow for option --enable-sample to append '.sample' to installed
1132 smartd.conf and rc script files. Also, let rc script shell setting
1133 be determined by configure
1135 [EM] Minor autoconf update to include -lcam for FreeBSD
1137 [EM] Add conditional logic to allow FreeBSD to compile pre-ATAng.
1139 Add some documentation to INSTALL for FreeBSD.
1141 [EM] Implement SCSI CAM support for FreeBSD. NOTE: I am not an expert
1142 in the use of CAM. It seems to work for me, but I may be doing
1143 something horribly wrong, so please exercise caution.
1145 [EM] Switch over to using 'atexit' rather than 'on_exit' routine. This also
1146 meant we needed to save the exit status elsewhere so our 'Goodbye'
1147 routine could examine it.
1149 [EM] Move the DEVICESCAN code to os specific files. Also moved some of the
1150 smartd Memory functions to utility.c to make available to smartctl.
1152 [EM] Code janitor work on os_freebsd.c.
1154 [EM] Added os_freebsd.[hc] code. Additional code janitor
1157 [BA] Code janitor working, moving OS dependent code into
1160 [GG] conditionally compile os_{freebsd,linux}.o depending on
1163 [PW] Print estimated completion time for tests
1165 [BA] Added -F samsung2 flag to correct firmware byte swap.
1166 All samsung drives with *-23 firmware revision string.
1170 [GG] Fixed broken Makefile.am (zero length smartd.conf.5
1171 was being created), fix broken uninstall/distcheck targets
1173 [FM] Improved Slackware init script added to /etc/smartd.initd
1175 smartmontools 5.19 [NOTE CHANGE OF RELEASE NUMBERING]
1177 [BA] smartctl: added '-T verypermissive' option which is
1178 equivalent to giving '-T permissive' many times.
1180 [BA] Try harder to identify from IDENTIFY DEVICE structure
1181 if SMART supported/enabled. smartd now does a more
1182 thorough job of trying to assess this before sending
1183 a SMART status command to find out for sure.
1185 [BA] smartctl: it's now possible to override the program's
1186 guess of the device type (ATA or SCSI) with -d option.
1188 [BA] try hard to avoid sending IDENTIFY DEVICE to packet
1189 devices (CDROMS). They can't do SMART, and this generates
1190 annoying syslog messages. At the same time, identify type
1193 [BA] smartctl: Can now use permissive option more
1194 than once, to control how far to go before giving up.
1196 [BA] smartd: if user asked to monitor either error or self-test
1197 logs (-l error or -l selftest) WITHOUT monitoring any of the
1198 Attribute values, code will SEGV. For 5.1-18 and earlier,
1199 a good workaround is to enable Auto offline (-o on).
1201 [BA] smartctl: If enable auto offline command given, update auto
1202 offline status before printing capabilities.
1204 [GG] Make autotools build the default, remove autotools.diff
1206 [GG] Add auto{conf,make} support, not enabled by default.
1208 [BA] Eliminated #include <linux/hdreg.h> from code. This
1209 should simplify porting to solaris, FreeBSD, etc. The
1210 only linux-specific code is now isolated to three routines,
1211 one for SCSI, one for Escalade, one for ATA.
1213 smartmontools 5.1-18
1215 [BA] smartd: fixed serious bug - Attributes not monitored unless
1216 user told smartd to ignore at least one of them!
1218 smartmontools 5.1-17
1220 [BA] Default runlevels for smartd changed from 3 and 5 to
1223 [BA] Removed as much dynamic memory allocation as possible from
1224 configuration file parsing. Reloading config file, even in
1225 presence of syntax errors etc. should not cause memory leaks.
1227 [PW] It is no longer permissible for the integer part (if any) of
1228 arguments to --report and --device to be followed by non-digits.
1229 For example, the "foo" in --report=ioctl,2foo was previously
1230 ignored, but now causes an error.
1232 [BA] smartd: added -q/--quit command line option to specify
1233 under what circumstances smartd should exit. The old
1234 -c/--checkonce option is now obsoleted by this more
1235 general-purpose option.
1237 [BA] smartd now responds to a HUP signal by re-reading its
1238 configuration file /etc/smartd.conf. If there are
1239 errors in this file, then the configuration file is
1240 ignored and smartd continues to monitor the devices that
1241 it was monitoring prior to receiving the HUP signal.
1243 [BA] Now correctly get SMART status from disks behind 3ware
1244 controllers, thanks to Adam Radford. Need 3w-xxxx driver
1245 version 1.02.00.037 or later. Previously the smartmontools
1246 SMART status always returned "OK" for 3ware controllers.
1248 [BA] Additional work on dynamic memory allocation/deallocation.
1249 This should have no effect on smartctl, but clears that way
1250 for smartd to dynamically add and remove entries. It should
1251 also now be easier to modify smartd to re-read its config
1252 file on HUP (which is easy) without leaking memory (which is
1253 harder). The philosophy is that memory for data structures in
1254 smartd is now allocated only on demand, the first time it
1257 [BA] smartd: finished cleanup. Now use create/rm functions for
1258 cfgentries and dynamic memory allocation almost everywhere.
1259 Philosophy: aggresively try and provoke SEGV to help find
1262 [BA] Added SAMSUNG SV0412H to knowndrives table.
1264 [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN used then knowndrives table might not set
1265 the -v attributes correctly -- may have been the same for all
1266 the drives. Cleaned up some data structures and memory
1267 allocation to try and ensure segvs if such problems are
1270 [BA] Now allow -S on and -o on for the 3ware device type. For these
1271 commands to be passed through, the stock 3ware 3w-xxxx driver
1272 must be patched (8 lines). I'll post a patch on the smartmontools
1273 home page after it's been tested by a few other people and 3ware
1274 have had a chance to look it over.
1276 smartmontools-5.1-16
1278 [BA] smartd - can now monitor ATA drives behind 3ware controllers.
1280 [BA] smartd - changed some FATAL out of memory error messages from
1281 syslog level LOG_INFO to LOG_CRIT.
1283 [BA] smartctl - added code to look at ATA drives behind 3ware RAID
1284 controllers using the 3w-xxxx driver. Note that for technical
1285 reasons related to the 3w-xxxx driver, the "Enable Autosave",
1286 "Enable Automatic Offline" commands are not implemented.
1287 I will add this to smartd shortly.
1289 [BA] smartd - modified sleep loop, so that smartd no longer comes
1290 on the run queue every second. Instead, unless interrupted,
1291 it sleeps until the next polling time, when it wakes up. Now
1292 smartd also tries to wake up at exactly the right
1293 intervals (nominally 30 min) even if the user has been sending
1296 [GG] add Fujitsu MHN2300AT to vendoropts_9_seconds.
1298 [EB] Fujitsu change in knowndrives ... match the whole MPD and
1299 MPE series for vendoropts_9_seconds.
1301 [BA] smartd bug, might cause segv if a device can not be opened. Was
1302 due to missing comma in char* list. Consequence is that email
1303 failure messages might have had the wrong Subject: heading for
1304 errorcount, FAILEDhealthcheck, FAILEDreadsmartdata, FAILEDreadsmarterrorlog,
1305 FAILEDreadsmartsefltestlog, FAILEDopendevice were all displaced by
1306 one. And FAILEDopendevice might have caused a segv if -m was being
1307 used as a smartd Directive.
1309 smartmontools-5.1-15
1311 [BA] Cleaned up smartmontools.spec so that upgrading, removing
1312 and other such operations correctly preserve running behavior
1313 and booting behavior of smartd.
1315 [BA] Improved formatting of ATA Error Log printout, and added
1316 listing of names of commands that caused the error. Added
1317 obsolete ATA-4 SMART feature commands to table, along with
1318 obsolete SFF-8035i SMART feature command.
1320 [PW] Added atacmdnames.[hc], which turn command register &
1321 feature register pairs into ATA command names.
1323 [BA] Added conveyance self-test. Some code added for selective
1324 self-tests, but #ifdefed out.
1326 [BA] Modified smartd exit status and log levels. If smartd is
1327 "cleanly" terminated, for example with SIGTERM, then its
1328 exit messages are now logged at LOG_INFO not LOG_CRIT
1330 [BA] Added Attribute IDs (Fujitsu) 0xCA - 0xCE. This is decimal
1331 202-206. Added -v switches for interpretation of Attributes
1334 [BA] Made smartmontools work with any endian order machine for:
1335 - SMART selftest log
1336 - SMART ATA error log
1337 - SMART Attributes values
1338 - SMART Attributes thesholds
1339 - IDENTIFY DEVICE information
1341 Smartmontools is now free of endian bias and works correctly
1342 on both little- and big-endian hardware. This has been tested by
1343 three independent PPC users on a variety of ATA and SCSI hardware.
1345 [DG] Check that certain SCSI command responses are well formed. If
1346 IEC mode page response is not well formed exit smartctl. This
1347 is to protect aacraid. smartd should ignore a aacraid device.
1349 smartmontools-5.1-14
1351 [BA] smartctl: added column to -A output to show if Attributes are
1352 updated only during off-line testing or also during normal
1355 smartmontools-5.1-13
1357 [BA] smartd: attempt to enable/disable automatic offline testing even
1358 if the disk appears not to support it. Now the same logic
1361 [BA] Added definition of Attribute 201, soft read error rate.
1363 [BA] Added IBM/Hitachi IC35L120AVV207-1 (GXP-180) and corresponding
1364 8MB Cache GXP-120 to drive database.
1366 [BA] smartd: if DEVICESCAN Directive used in smartd.conf, and
1367 -I, -R or -r Directives used in conjunction with this, got
1368 segv errors. Fixed by correcting memory allocation calls.
1370 [BA] smartd: enable automatic offline testing was broken due
1371 to cut-and-paste error that disabled it instead of
1372 enabling it. Thanks to Maciej W. Rozycki for pointing
1373 out the problem and solution.
1375 [BA] Fixed "spelling" of some Attribute names to replace spaces
1376 in names by underscores. (Fixed field width easier for awk
1379 [BA,GF] Added mods submitted by [GF] to support Attribute 193 being
1380 load/unload cycles. Add -v 193,loadunload option, useful for
1381 Hitachi drive DK23EA-30, and add this drive to knowndrive.c
1382 Add meaning of attribute 250 : Read error retry rate
1384 smartmontools-5.1-12
1386 [BA] Added another entry for Samsung drives to knowndrive table.
1388 [DG] Refine SCSI log sense command to do a double fetch in most cases
1389 (but not for the TapeAlert log page). Fix TapeAlert and Self Test
1390 log page response truncation.
1392 [PW] Added 'removable' argument to -d Directive for smartd. This indicates
1393 that smartd should continue (rather than exit) if the device does not
1394 appear to be present.
1396 [BA] Modified smartmontools.spec [Man pages location] and
1397 smartd.initd [Extra space kills chkconfig!] for Redhat 6.x
1398 compatibility (thanks to Gerald Schnabel).
1400 smartmontools-5.1-11
1402 [EB] Add another Fujitsu disk to knowndrives.c
1404 [GG] match for scsi/ and ide/ in case of devfs to exclude false postives
1406 [BA] If SCSI device listed in /etc/smartd.conf fails to open or do
1407 SMART stuff correctly, or not enough space
1408 to list all SCSI devices, fail with error unless
1409 -DSCSIDEVELOPMENT set during compile-time.
1411 [BA] Added automatic recognition of /dev/i* (example: /dev/ide/...)
1414 [DG] Add "Device type: [disk | tape | medium changer | ...] line to
1415 smartctl -i output for SCSI devices.
1417 [PW] Fixed bug in smartd where test email would be sent regularly (for
1418 example, daily if the user had specified -M daily) instead of just
1421 [KM] More TapeAlert work. Added translations for media changer
1422 alerts. TapeAlert support reported according to the log page
1423 presence. ModeSense not attempted for non-ready tapes (all
1424 drives do not support this after all). Get peripheral type from
1425 Inquiry even if drive info is not printed. Add QUIETON()
1426 QUIETOFF() to TapeAlert log check.
1428 [BA] Stupid bug in atacmds.c minor_str[] affected ataVersionInfo().
1429 Two missing commas meant that minor_str[] had two few elements,
1430 leading to output like this:
1431 Device Model: Maxtor 6Y120L0
1432 Serial Number: Y40BF74E
1433 Firmware Version: YAR41VW0
1434 Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
1436 ATA Standard is: 9,minutes
1438 Missing commas inserted.
1440 [BA] Fixed smartd bug. On device registration, if ATA device did
1441 not support SMART error or self-test logs but user had asked to
1442 monitor them, an attempt would be made to read them anyway,
1443 possibly generating "Drive Seek" errors. We now check that
1444 the self-test and error logs are supported before trying to
1445 access them the first time.
1447 [GG/BA] Fixed bug where if SMART ATA error log not supported,
1448 command was tried anyway. Changed some error printing to use
1451 [GG] Makefile modifications to ease packaging
1453 [DG] Did work for TapeAlerts (SCSI). Now can detect /dev/nst0 as a
1454 SCSI device. Also open SCSI devices O_NONBLOCK so they don't
1455 hang on open awaiting media. The ATA side should worry about
1456 this also: during a DEVICESCAN a cd/dvd device without media
1457 will hang. Added some TapeAlert code suggested by Kai Makisara.
1459 smartmontools-5.1-10
1461 [PW] Extended the -F option/Directive to potentially fix other firmware
1462 bugs in addition to the Samsung byte-order bug. Long option name is
1463 now --firmwarebug and the option/Directive accepts an argument
1464 indicating the type of firmware bug to fix.
1466 [BA] Fixed a bug that prevented the enable automatic off-line
1467 test feature from enabling. It also prevented the enable Attribute
1468 autosave from working. See CVS entry for additional details.
1470 [PW] Modified the -r/--report option (smartctl and smartd) to allow the
1471 user to specify the debug level as a positive integer.
1473 [BA] Added --log directory option to smartctl. If the disk
1474 supports the general-purpose logging feature set (ATA-6/7)
1475 then this option enables the Log Directory to be printed.
1476 This Log Directory shows which device logs are available, and
1477 their lengths in sectors.
1479 [PW] Added -P/--presets option to smartctl and -P Directive to smartd.
1481 [GG] Introduce different exit codes indicating the type of problem
1482 encountered for smartd.
1484 [DG] Add non-medium error count to '-l error' and extended self test
1485 duration to '-l selftest'. Get scsi IEs and temperature changes
1486 working in smartd. Step over various scsi disk problems rather
1487 than abort smartd startup.
1489 [DG] Support -l error for SCSI disks (and tapes). Output error counter
1492 [BA] Added -F/--fixbyteorder option to smartctl. This allows us to read
1493 SMART data from some disks that have byte-reversed two- and four-
1494 byte quantities in their SMART data structures.
1496 [BA] Fixed serious bug: the -v options in smartd.conf were all put
1497 together and used together, not drive-by-drive.
1499 [PW] Added knowndrives.h and knowndrives.c. The knowndrives array
1500 supersedes the drivewarnings array.
1502 [GG] add {-p,--pidfile} option to smartd to write a PID file on
1503 startup. Update the manpage accordingly.
1505 [DG] Fix scsi smartd problem detecting SMART support. More cleaning
1506 and fix (and rename) scsiTestUnitReady(). More scsi renaming.
1508 [BA] Fixed smartd so that if a disk that is explictily listed is not
1509 found, then smartd will exit with nonzero status BEFORE forking.
1510 If a disk can't be registered, this will also be detected before
1511 forking, so that init scripts can react correctly.
1513 [BA] Replaced all linux-specific ioctl() calls in atacmds.c with
1514 a generic handler smartcommandhandler(). Now the only routine
1515 that needs to be implemented for a given OS is os_specific_handler().
1516 Also implemented the --report ataioctl. This provides
1517 two levels of reporting. Using the option once gives a summary
1518 report of device IOCTL transactions. Using the option twice give
1519 additional info (a printout of ALL device raw 512 byte SMART
1520 data structures). This is useful for debugging.
1522 [DG] more scsi cleanup. Output scsi device serial number (VPD page
1523 0x80) if available as part of '-i'. Implement '-t offline' as
1524 default self test (only self test older disks support).
1526 [BA] Changed crit to info in loglevel of smartd complaint to syslog
1527 if DEVICESCAN enabled and device not found.
1529 [BA] Added -v 194,10xCelsius option/Directive. Raw Attribute number
1530 194 is ten times the disk temperature in Celsius.
1532 [DG] scsicmds.[hc] + scsiprint.c: clean up indentation, remove tabs.
1533 Introduce new intermediate interface based on "struct scsi_cmnd_io"
1534 to isolate SCSI generic commands + responses from Linux details;
1535 should help port to FreeBSD of SCSI part of smartmontools.
1536 Make SCSI command builders more parametric.
1540 [BA] smartctl: if HDIO_DRIVE_TASK ioctl() is not implemented (no
1541 kernel support, then try to assess drive health by examining
1542 Attribute values/thresholds directly.
1544 [BA] smartd/smartctl: added -v 200,writeerrorcount option/Directive
1547 [BA] smartd: Now send email if any of the SMART commands fails,
1548 or if open()ing the device fails. This is often noted
1549 as a common disk failure mode.
1551 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v N,raw8 -v N,raw16 and -v N,raw48
1552 Directives/Options for printing Raw Attributes in different
1555 [BA] smartd: Added -r ID and -R ID for reporting/tracking Raw
1556 values of Attributes.
1558 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Changed printing of spin-up-time attribute
1559 raw value to reflect current/average as per IBM standard.
1561 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added -v 9,seconds option for disks which
1562 use Attribute 9 for power-on lifetime in seconds.
1564 [BA] smartctl: Added a warning message so that users of some IBM
1565 disks are warned to update their firmware. Note: we may want
1566 to add a command-line flag to disable the warning messages.
1567 I have done this in a general way, using regexp, so that we
1568 can add warnings about any type of disk that we wish...
1572 [BA] smartd: Created a subdirectory examplescripts/ of source
1573 directory that contains executable scripts for the -M exec PATH
1574 Directive of smartd.
1578 [BA] smartd: DEVICESCAN in /etc/smartd.conf
1579 can now be followed by all the same Directives as a regular
1580 device name like /dev/hda takes. This allows one to use
1582 DEVICESCAN -m root@example.com
1583 in the /etc/smartd.conf file.
1585 [BA] smartd: Added -c (--checkonce) command-line option. This checks
1586 all devices once, then exits. The exit status can be
1587 used to learn if devices were detected, and if smartd is
1588 functioning correctly. This is primarily for Distribution
1591 [BA] smartd: Implemented -M exec Directive for
1592 smartd.conf. This makes it possible to run an
1593 arbitrary script or mailing program with the
1596 [PW] smartd: Modified -M Directive so that it can be given
1597 multiple times. Added -M exec Directive.
1601 [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Pierre Gentile.
1602 -d scsi didn't work because tryata and tryscsi were
1603 reversed -- now works on /devfs SCSI devices.
1605 [BA] Fixed bug in smartctl pointed out by Gregory Goddard
1606 <ggoddard@ufl.edu>. Manual says that bit 6 of return
1607 value turned on if errors found in smart error log. But
1608 this wasn't implemented.
1612 [BA] Modified printing format for 9,minutes to read
1613 Xh+Ym not X h + Y m, so that fields are fixed width.
1615 [BA] Added Attribute 240 "head flying hours"
1619 [BA] As requested, local time/date now printed by smartctl -i
1621 [PW] Added "help" argument to -v for smartctl
1623 [PW] Added -D, --showdirectives option to smartd
1625 [DG] add '-l selftest' capability for SCSI devices (update smartctl.8)
1627 [BA] smartd,smartctl: added additional Attribute modification option
1628 -v 220,temp and -v 9,temp.
1630 [PW] Renamed smartd option -X to -d
1632 START OF SMARTMONTOOLS 5.1 series
1634 smartmontools-5.0.50
1636 [PW] Changed smartd.conf Directives -- see man page
1638 [BA/DG] Fixed uncommented comment in smartd.conf
1640 [DG] Correct 'Recommended start stop count' for SCSI devices
1642 [PW] Replaced smartd.conf directive -C with smartd option -i
1644 [PW] Changed options for smartctl -- see man page.
1646 [BA] Use strerror() to generate system call error messages.
1648 [BA] smartd: fflush() all open streams before fork().
1650 [BA] smartctl, smartd simplified internal handling of checksums
1651 for simpler porting and less code.
1653 smartmontools-5.0.49
1655 [PW] smartd --debugmode changed to --debug
1657 [BA] smartd/smartctl added attribute 230 Head Amplitude from
1660 [PW] Added list of proposed new options for smartctl to README.
1662 [PW] smartd: ParseOpts() now uses getopt_long() if HAVE_GETOPT_LONG is
1663 defined and uses getopt() otherwise. This is controlled by CPPFLAGS in
1666 [BA] smartd: Fixed a couple of error messages done with perror()
1667 to redirect them as needed.
1669 smartmontools-5.0.48
1671 [BA] smartctl: The -O option to enable an Immediate off-line test
1672 did not print out the correct time that the test would take to
1673 complete. This is because the test timer is volatile and not
1674 fixed. This has been fixed, and the smartctl.8 man page has been
1675 updated to explain how to track the Immediate offline test as it
1676 progresses, and to further emphasize the differences between the
1677 off-line immediate test and the self-tests.
1679 [BA] smartd/smartctl: Added new attribute (200) Multi_Zone_Error_Rate
1681 [BA] smartctl: modified so that arguments could have either a single -
1682 as in -ea or multiple ones as in -e -a. Improved warning message for
1683 device not opened, and fixed error in redirection of error output of
1684 HD identity command.
1686 [PW] smartd: added support for long options. All short options are still
1687 supported; see manpage for available long options.
1689 [BA] smartctl. When raw Attribute value was 2^31 or larger, did
1690 not print correctly.
1692 smartmontools-5.0.46
1694 [BA] smartd: added smartd.conf Directives -T and -s. The -T Directive
1695 enables/disables Automatic Offline Testing. The -s Directive
1696 enables/disables Attribute Autosave. Documentation and
1697 example configuration file updated to agree.
1699 [BA] smartd: user can make smartd check the disks at any time
1700 (ie, interrupt sleep) by sending signal SIGUSR1 to smartd. This
1701 can be done for example with:
1703 where <pid> is the process ID number of smartd.
1705 [EB] scsi: don't trust the data we receive from the drive too
1706 much. It very well might have errors (like zero response length).
1707 Seen on Megaraid logical drive, and verified in the driver source.
1709 [BA] smartd: added Directive -m for sending test email and
1710 for modifying email reminder behavior. Updated manual, and sample
1711 configuration file to illustrate & explain this.
1713 [BA] smartd: increased size of a continued smartd.conf line to
1716 [BA] Simplified Directive parsers and improved warning/error
1719 smartmontools-5.0.45
1721 [EB] Fixed bug in smartd where testunitready logic inverted
1722 prevented functioning on scsi devices.
1723 The bug in question only affects smartd users with scsi devices.
1724 To see if your version of smartd has the testunitready() bug, do
1726 If the version of the module smartd.c in a line like:
1727 Module: smartd.c revision: 1.66 date: 2002/11/17
1728 has a revision greater than or equal to 1.30, and less than or equal to
1729 1.64, then your version of the code has this problem.
1730 This problem affected releases starting with RELEASE_5_0_16 up to and
1731 including RELEASE_5_0_43.
1733 [BA] Added testunitnotready to smartctl for symmetry with smartd.
1735 [SB] added Czech descriptions to .spec file
1736 [SB] corrected comment in smartd.conf example
1738 [BA] Changed way that entries in the ATA error log are printed,
1739 to make it clearer which is the most recent error and
1740 which is the oldest one.
1742 NOTE: All changes made prior to this point were done by Bruce Allen
1743 [BA] although several of them had been suggested by earlier postings
1744 by Stanislav Brabec [SB].
1746 smartmontools-5.0.43
1748 Changed Temperature_Centigrade to Temperature_Celsius.
1749 The term "Centigrade" ceased to exist in 1948. (c.f
1750 http://www.bartleby.com/64/C004/016.html).
1752 smartmontools-5.0.42
1754 Modified SCSI device check to also send warning emails if
1755 requested in directives file.
1757 Added a new smartd configuration file Directive: -M ADDRESS.
1758 This sends a single warning email to ADDRESS for failures or
1759 errors detected with the -c, -L, -l, or -f Directives.
1761 smartmontools-5.0.38
1763 Modified perror() statements in atacmds.c so that printout for SMART
1764 commands errors is properly suppressed or queued depending upon users
1765 choices for error reporting modes.
1767 Added Italian descriptions to smartmontools.spec file.
1769 Started impementing send-mail-on-error for smartd; not yet enabled.
1771 Added -P (Permissive) Directive to smartd.conf file to allow SMART
1772 monitoring of pre-ATA-3 Rev 4 disks that have SMART but do not have
1773 a SMART capability bit.
1775 Removed charset encodings from smartmontools.spec file for non-English
1778 smartmontools-5.0.32
1780 Added manual page smartd.conf.5 for configuration file.
1782 smartctl: Missing ANSI prototype in failuretest(); fixed.
1784 smartctl: Checksum warnings now printed on stdout, or are silent,
1785 depending upon -q and -Q settings.
1787 smartmontools-5.0.31
1789 Changed Makefile so that the -V option does not reflect file state
1792 smartctl: added new options -W, -U, and -P to control if and how the
1793 smartctl exits if an error is detected in either a SMART data
1794 structure checksum, or a SMART command returns an error.
1796 modified manual page to break options into slightly more logical
1799 reformatted 'usage' message order to agree with man page ordering
1801 modified .spec file so that locale information now contains
1802 character set definition. Changed pt_BR to pt since we do not use any
1803 aspect other than language. See man setlocale.
1805 smartmontools-5.0.30
1806 smartctl: added new options -n and -N to force device to be ATA or SCSI
1807 smartctl: no longer dies silently if device path does not start/dev/X
1808 smartctl: now handles arbitrary device paths
1810 smartmontools-5.0.29
1811 Modified .spec file and Makefile to make them more compliant with
1812 the "right" way of doing things.
1814 smartmontools-5.0.26
1815 Fixed typesetting error in man page smartd.8
1817 Removed redundant variable (harmless) from smartd.c
1819 smartmontools-5.0.25
1821 Added a new directive for the configuration file. If the word
1822 DEVICESCAN appears before any non-commented material in the
1823 configuration file, then the confi file will be ignored and the
1824 devices wil be scanned.
1826 smartmontools-5.0.24
1828 Note: it has now been confirmed that the code modifications between
1829 5.0.23 and 5.0.24 have eliminated the GCC 3.2 problems. Note that
1830 there is a GCC bug howerver, see #8404 at
1831 http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gcc&cmd=query
1832 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8404
1834 Added new Directive for Configuration file:
1835 -C <N> This sets the time in between disk checks to be <N>
1836 seconds apart. Note that although you can give
1837 this Directive multiple times on different lines of
1838 the configuration file, only the final value that
1839 is given has an effect, and applies to all the
1840 disks. The default value of <N> is 1800 sec, and
1841 the minimum allowed value is ten seconds.
1843 Problem wasn't the print format. F.L.W. Meunier <0@pervalidus.net>
1844 sent me a gcc 3.2 build and I ran it under a debugger. The
1845 problem seems to be with passing the very large (2x512+4) byte
1846 data structures as arguments. I never liked this anyway; it was
1847 inherited from smartsuite. So I've changed all the heavyweight
1848 functions (ATA ones, anyone) to just passing pointers, not hideous
1849 kB size structures on the stack. Hopefully this will now build OK
1850 under gcc 3.2 with any sensible compilation options.
1852 smartmontools-5.0.23
1854 Because of reported problems with GCC 3.2 compile, I have gone
1855 thorough the code and explicitly changed all print format
1856 parameters to correspond EXACTLY to int unless they have to be
1857 promoted to long longs. To quote from the glibc bible: [From
1858 GLIBC Manual: Since the prototype doesn't specify types for
1859 optional arguments, in a call to a variadic function the default
1860 argument promotions are performed on the optional argument
1861 values. This means the objects of type char or short int (whether
1862 signed or not) are promoted to either int or unsigned int, as
1865 smartmontools-5.0.22
1867 smartd, smartctl now warn if they find an attribute whose ID
1868 number does not match between Data and Threshold structures.
1870 Fixed nasty bug which led to wrong number of arguments for a
1871 varargs statement, with attendent stack corruption. Sheesh!
1872 Have added script to CVS attic to help find such nasties in the
1875 smartmontools-5.0.21
1877 Eliminated some global variables out of header files and other
1878 minor cleanup of smartd.
1880 smartmontools-5.0.20
1882 Did some revision of the man page for smartd and made the usage
1883 messages for Directives 100% consistent.
1885 smartmontools-5.0-19
1887 smartd: prints warning message when it gets SIGHUP, saying that it
1888 is NOT re-reading the config file.
1890 smartctl: updated man page to say self-test commands -O,x,X,s,S,A
1891 appear to be supported in the code. [I can't test these, can anyone
1894 smartmontools-5.0-18
1896 smartctl: smartctl would previously print the LBA of a self-test
1897 if it completed, and the LBA was not 0 or 0xff...f However
1898 according to the specs this is not correct. According to the
1899 specs, if the self-test completed without error then LBA is
1900 undefined. This version fixes that. LBA value only printed if
1901 self-test encountered an error.
1903 smartmontools-5.0-17
1905 smartd has changed significantly. This is the first CVS checkin of
1906 code that extends the options available for smartd. The following
1907 options can be placed into the /etc/smartd.conf file, and control the
1909 Configuration file Directives (following device name):
1910 -A Device is an ATA device
1911 -S Device is a SCSI device
1912 -c Monitor SMART Health Status
1913 -l Monitor SMART Error Log for changes
1914 -L Monitor SMART Self-Test Log for new errors
1915 -f Monitor for failure of any 'Usage' Attributes
1916 -p Report changes in 'Prefailure' Attributes
1917 -u Report changes in 'Usage' Attributes
1918 -t Equivalent to -p and -u Directives
1919 -a Equivalent to -c -l -L -f -t Directives
1920 -i ID Ignore Attribute ID for -f Directive
1921 -I ID Ignore Attribute ID for -p, -u or -t Directive
1922 # Comment: text after a hash sign is ignored
1923 \ Line continuation character
1925 cleaned up functions used for printing CVS IDs. Now use string
1926 library, as it should be.
1928 modified length of device name string in smartd internal structure
1929 to accomodate max length device name strings
1931 removed un-implemented (-e = Email notification) option from
1932 command line arg list. We'll put it back on when implemeneted.
1934 smartd now logs serious (fatal) conditions in its operation at
1935 loglevel LOG_CRIT rather than LOG_INFO before exiting with error.
1937 smartd used to open a file descriptor for each SMART enabled
1938 device, and then keep it open the entire time smartd was running.
1939 This meant that some commands, like IOREADBLKPART did not work,
1940 since the fd to the device was open. smartd now opens the device
1941 when it needs to read values, then closes it. Also, if one time
1942 around it can't open the device, it simply prints a warning
1943 message but does not give up. Have eliminated the .fd field from
1944 data structures -- no longer gets used.
1946 smartd now opens SCSI devices as well using O_RDONLY rather than
1947 O_RDWR. If someone can no longer monitor a SCSI device that used
1948 to be readable, this may well be the reason why.
1950 smartd never checked if the number of ata or scsi devices detected
1951 was greater than the max number it could monitor. Now it does.
1953 smartmontools-5.0-16
1955 smartd on startup now looks in the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf for
1956 a list of devices which to include in its monitoring list. See man page
1957 (man smartd) for syntax.
1959 smartd: close file descriptors of SCSI device if not SMART capable
1960 Closes ALL file descriptors after forking to daemon.
1962 added new temperature attribute (231, temperature)
1964 smartd: now open ATA disks using O_RDONLY
1966 smartmontools-5.0-11
1968 smartd now prints the name of a failed or changed attribute
1969 into logfile, not just ID number
1971 Changed name of -p (print version) option to -V
1973 Minor change in philosophy: if a SMART command fails or the device
1974 appears incapable of a SMART command that the user has asked for,
1975 complain by printing an error message, but go ahead and try
1976 anyway. Since unimplemented SMART commands should just return an
1977 error but not cause disk problems, this should't cause any
1980 Added two new flags: q and Q. q is quiet mode - only print: For
1981 the -l option, errors recorded in the SMART error log; For the -L
1982 option, errors recorded in the device self-test log; For the -c
1983 SMART "disk failing" status or device attributes (pre-failure or
1984 usage) which failed either now or in the past; For the -v option
1985 device attributes (pre-failure or usage) which failed either now
1986 or in the past. Q is Very Quiet mode: Print no ouput. The only
1987 way to learn about what was found is to use the exit status of
1990 smartctl now returns sensible values (bitmask). See smartctl.h
1991 for the values, and the man page for documentation.
1993 The SMART status check now uses the correct ATA call. If failure
1994 is detected we search through attributes to list the failed ones.
1995 If the SMART status check shows GOOD, we then look to see if their
1996 are any usage attributes or prefail attributes have failed at any
1997 time. If so we print them.
1999 Modified function that prints vendor attributes to say if the
2000 attribute has currently failed or has ever failed.
2002 -p option now prints out license info and CVS strings for all
2003 modules in the code, nicely formatted.
2005 Previous versions of this code (and Smartsuite) only generate
2006 SMART failure errors if the value of an attribute is below the
2007 threshold and the prefailure bit is set. However the ATA Spec
2008 (ATA4 <=Rev 4) says that it is a SMART failure if the value of an
2009 attribute is LESS THAN OR EQUAL to the threshold and the
2010 prefailure bit is set. This is now fixed in both smartctl and
2011 smartd. Note that this is a troubled subject -- the original
2012 SFF 8035i specification defining SMART was inconsistent about
2013 this. One section says that Attribute==Threshold is pass,
2014 and another section says it is fail. However the ATA specs are
2015 consistent and say Attribute==Threshold is a fail.
2017 smartd did not print the correct value of any failing SMART attribute. It
2018 printed the index in the attribute table, not the attribute
2021 when starting self-tests in captive mode ioctl returns EIO because
2022 the drive has been busied out. Detect this and don't return an eror
2023 in this case. Check this this is correct (or how to fix it?)
2025 fixed possible error in how to determine ATA standard support
2026 for devices with no ATA minor revision number.
2028 device opened only in read-only not read-write mode. Don't need R/W
2029 access to get smart data. Check this with Andre.
2031 smartctl now handles all possible choices of "multiple options"
2032 gracefully. It goes through the following phases of operation,
2033 in order: INFORMATION, ENABLE/DISABLE, DISPLAY DATA, RUN/ABORT TESTS.
2034 Documentation has bee updated to explain the different phases of
2035 operation. Control flow through ataPrintMain()
2038 If reading device identity information fails, try seeing if the info
2039 can be accessed using a "DEVICE PACKET" command. This way we can
2040 at least get device info.
2042 Modified Makefile to automatically tag CVS archive on issuance of
2045 Modified drive detection so minor device ID code showing ATA-3 rev
2046 0 (no SMART) is known to not be SMART capable.
2048 Now verify the checksum of the device ID data structure, and of the
2049 attributes threshold structure. Before neither of these
2050 structures had their checksums verified.
2052 New behavior vis-a-vis checksums. If they are wrong, we log
2053 warning messages to stdout, stderr, and syslog, but carry on
2054 anyway. All functions now call a checksumwarning routine if the
2055 checksum doesn't vanish as it should.
2057 Changed Read Hard Disk Identity function to get fresh info from
2058 the disk on each call rather than to use the values that were read
2059 upon boot-up into the BIOS. This is the biggest change in this
2060 release. The ioctl(device, HDIO_GET_IDENTITY, buf ) call should
2061 be avoided in such code. Note that if people get garbled strings
2062 for the model, serial no and firmware versions of their drives,
2063 then blame goes here (the BIOS does the byte swapping for you,
2066 Function ataSmartSupport now looks at correct bits in drive
2067 identity structure to verify first that these bits are valid,
2070 Function ataIsSmartEnabled() written which uses the Drive ID state
2071 information to tell if SMART is enabled or not. We'll carry this
2072 along for the moment without using it.
2074 Function ataDoesSmartWork() guaranteed to work if the device
2077 Replace some numbers by #define MACROS
2079 Wrote Function TestTime to return test time associated with each
2080 different type of test.
2082 Thinking of the future, have added a new function called
2083 ataSmartStatus2(). Eventually when I understand how to use the
2084 TASKFILE API and am sure that this works correctly, it will
2085 replace ataSmartStatus(). This queries the drive directly to
2086 see if the SMART status is OK, rather than comparing thresholds to
2087 attribute values ourselves. But I need to get some drives that fail
2088 their SMART status to check it.
2091 smartmontools-5.0-10
2092 Removed extraneous space before printing in some error messages
2093 Fixed additional typos in documentation
2094 Fixed some character buffers that were too short for their contents.
2098 Put project home path into all source files near the top
2099 Corrected typos in the documentation
2100 Modified Makefile so that Mandrake Cooker won't increment version number
2101 (unless they happen to be working on my machine, which I doubt!)
2103 smartmontools-5.0-8:
2105 For IBM disks whose raw temp data includes three temps. print all
2108 print timestamps for error log to msec precision
2110 added -m option for Hitachi disks that store power on life in
2113 added -L option for printing self-test error logs
2115 in -l option, now print power on lifetime, so that one can see
2116 when the error took place
2118 updated SMART structure definitions to ATA-5 spec
2122 added -f and -F options to enable/disable autosave threshold
2125 changed argv parsing to use getops -- elminate buffer overflow
2128 expanded and corrected documentation
2130 fixed problem with smartd. It did not actually call
2131 ataSmartEnable()! Since the argument was left out, the test
2132 always suceeded because it evaluated to a pointer to the function.
2134 smartd: closed open file descriptors if device does not support
2135 smart. Note: this still needs to be fixed for SCSI devices
2138 smartmontools-5.0-0 STARTED with smartsuite-2.1-2